Car electric or diesel ask google ngram viewer
Using google ngram viewer to know the trend
For example, I would like to ask a question which idea is first, electric car or diesel car. For this let us explore the literature from the 1900's to the present. This information is collected as ngram data.
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car =>diesel
As expected Diesel engine was invented in 1890, but took off commercially as a blockbuster in 1940 at first.
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car => electric
There was a hype around electric vehicles in the 1900 to 1920 but diesel engine became a true practicality for the next century from 1920.